By memes do you mean advice animals, or did people not make running jokes until the 00's?

There were running jokes on the internet before but if memory serves right they were limited to the communities where they originated. I think the first wide spread meme that i really was aware of was the "all your base are belong to us" thing.

Gungnir wrote:Send your armies. There's no man or machine who can stop me, and you'll soon see.I come for vengeance for the first Son of Light and I'm ready, and I'm willing, and I'm prepared to fight.